> At this point, Copilot strikes me as a tool that replaces googling for stack overflow answers This matches with my experience. I have never used Copilot to g

> At this point, Copilot strikes me as a tool that replaces googling for stack overflow answers This matches with my experience. I have never used Copilot to generate a large body of code or even anything more than a few trivially inspectable lines. To name a very specific example, earlier this morning I was working on a VS Code extension and needed to figure out how to get it to prompt the user to select a file. I started typing out a Google search, but realized that Copilot might already know what to do. So I entered a comment like the following: // Prompt the user to select a file using VS Code's extension API And, like magic, Copilot generated the correct incantation, including auto filling the parameters to the API call to single select a file (vs multi select or directory select). It saved me probably four or five minutes of searching the web and figuring out the right API call and options to get the behavior I wanted. To me, Copilot's value is as this sort of labor-saving device. It can indeed be induced to generate larger amounts of code, much of it questionable, but the tool can be a huge time-saver when used responsibly.